The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bottom \Bot"tom\ (b[o^]t"t[u^]m), n. [OE. botum, botme, AS. botm; akin to OS. bodom, D. bodem, OHG. podam, G. boden, Icel. botn, Sw. botten, Dan. bund (for budn), L. fundus (for fudnus), Gr. pyqmh`n (for fyqmh`n), Skr. budhna (for bhudhna), and Ir. bonn sole of the foot, W. bon stem, base.
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The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
Or dive into the bottom of the deep.
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The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
Barrels with the bottom knocked out.
--Macaulay.No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms.
--W. Irving. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
The fundament; the buttocks.
An abyss. [Obs.]
--Dryden.Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. ``The bottoms and the high grounds.''
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(Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
--Shak.Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.
--Bancroft.Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise.
Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
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Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
--Johnson.At bottom, At the bottom, at the foundation or basis; in reality. ``He was at the bottom a good man.''
--J. F. Cooper.To be at the bottom of, to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.]
--J. H. Newman.He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels.
--Addison.To go to the bottom, to sink; esp. to be wrecked.
To touch bottom, to reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest.
Wikipedia
"At the Bottom" is a song by the American rock band Brand New. It is the only single to be released off of their fourth studio album Daisy. The song was released via digital retailers on August 11, 2009. The song went to radio three days early on August 8, 2009. Consequently, radio rips of the song were posted to YouTube on the same day. The song charted at number 14 on the UK Rock Chart. A physical copy of the single, pressed on CD, was made available with pre-orders of the album through Smart Punk's website and at select retail stores.
The artwork for the single is Field of Probability, an oil painting by Gregory Scheckler.
Usage examples of "at the bottom".
Combined with what Lester did to Zanzibar, the Manties have to be feeling as if they strayed in front of an out-of-control freight shuttle at the bottom of a gravity well.
For some distance Ghak remained with the stream that was traveling toward the lake, but finally, at the bottom of a little gully he halted, and there we remained until all had passed and we were alone.
He glanced down to see her waiting at the bottom of the stairs and smiled.
A good autopilot will get him safely around it, or program an in-and-out spin, or even land him at the bottom, God forbid.